 | Joseph Ritson - 1828 - Страниц: 282
...Piks came from Norway to Scotland" (I. 15). He was formerly, he allows, of a different opinion : " That the Piks were a new race, who had come in upon...; and that the Caledonians were Cumraig Britons." This seems highly rational, at least, if it were not the real fact. " But," he adds, " finding Tacitus,... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - 1828 - Страниц: 280
...Norway to Scotland" (I. 15). He was formerly, he allows, of a different opinion : " That the Piles were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians...; and that the Caledonians were Cumraig Britons." This seems highly rational, at least, if it were not the real fact. " But," he adds, " finding Tacitus,... | |
 | 1829 - Страниц: 590
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, ' he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them.' But finding that this theory, ' although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - Страниц: 584
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - Страниц: 402
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - Страниц: 558
...Picts, though he had — before he completely examined the subject — held the opinion that the Picts were a new race who had come in upon the Caledonians...century and expelled them, and that the Caledonians were Cumric Britons; but finding Tacitus, Eumenius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Bede, opposed, as he imagines,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - Страниц: 1198
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - Страниц: 460
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1829 - Страниц: 584
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, ' he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them.' But finding that this theory, ' although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
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... history. It is clear that if Mr. Pinkerton could have made any choice betwixt these alternatives, with the least countenance from history, the latter would have best suited his system. Accordingly he frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined... 